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Death of Ezzard Charles (53,), former heavyweight
Death of Ezzard Charles (53,), former heavyweight boxing champion, in Chicago.
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May
27
1975
Jean Baptist Pointe Desable founds Chicago
Jean Baptist Pointe Desable, a French speaking Santo Domingo native, becomes the first permanent resident and thus founder of Chicago.
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Jun
6
1790
Brooks, Gwendolyn Elizabeth
Brooks, Gwendolyn Elizabeth, 1917–2000, American poet, b. Topeka, Kans. She grew up in the slums of Chicago and lived in that city until her death. Brookss poems, technically accomplished and written in a variety of forms including quatrains, free verse, ballads, and sonnets, deal with the
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Jackie Roosevelt Robinson's professional debut
Jackie Roosevelt Robinson made his professional debut as a member of the Montreal Royals in the
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Mar
17
1946
Ntozke Shange is born
Born Paulette Williams, she graduated from Barnard College in 1970, and later earned an MA from the University of Southern California. It was there she changed her name to the Zulu “Ntozke” meaning “she who comes with her own things” and “Shange” meaning
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Oct
18
1948
Birthday
Charles Wade Barkley, 36, basketball player, born Leeds, AL, February 20, 1963
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Feb
20
1963
Baseball Great Jackie Robinson born
In Cairo, Georgia on this date baseball great Jackie Robinson was born. The fifth African American to play major league baseball with a white team, Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, ending five decades of segregated baseball. At the time of his retirement in October 1972, Robinson is
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Jan
31
1919
Some 225,000 students boycotted Chicago schools in
Some 225,000 students boycotted Chicago schools in Freedom Day protest of de facto segregation.
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Oct
22
1963
Social Movement
April 3, 1962. In retaliation against a Black Boycott of downtown stores, the Birmingham,AL, City Commission voted not to pay the citys $45,000 share of a $100,000 county program which supplied surplus food to the needy. More than 90 percent of the recipients of aid were Black. When the NAACP
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Apr
3
1962
Katherine Dunham, dancer/anthropologist born
Katherine Dunham
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Jun
22
1912
Founder of Pro-Line
Comer Cottrell, founder and president of Pro-Line Corporation (1970), the largest African American owned business in the Southwest and the first African American to be part owner of a major league baseball team (1989), the Texas Rangers, born
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Dec
7
1931
Hank Aaron Breaks Babe Ruth's Record
Henry (Hank) Aaron broke Babe Ruths major league baseball record, by hitting his 715th home run in a game at Atlanta stadium.
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Apr
8
1974
Willie Mays, born
Baseball great Willie Howard Mays was born in Westfield, Alabama. Mays played with both the New York and San Francisco Giants. He was National League batting champion four times and twice the leagues Most Valuable Player.
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May
6
1931
Martin Luther King was denied freedom of speech!
When martin Luther King came to chicago in the late 60s, no church would let him speak, but one! All the others said he was a radial
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Jun
26
1967
First Black Head of Veterans Organization
W. Robert Ming, Chicago lawyer, elected chairman of American Veterans Committee. He was the first Black to head a major national veterans organization.
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Apr
28
1957
sphinx
sphinx sfĭngks [key], mythical beast of ancient Egypt, frequently symbolizing the pharaoh as an incarnation of the sun god Ra . The sphinx was represented in sculpture usually in a recumbent position with the head of a man and the body of a lion, although some were constructed with rams heads and
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Emmett Ashford
Emmett Ashrord was the first umpire in major league baseball.
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0
2000
James B. Parsons
James B. Parsons becomes the first African American chief judge of a federal court, the U.S. District Court of Chicago. In 1961, Parsons became the first African American district court judge
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Mar
19
1975
Musician Herbie Hancock born
Contemporary jazz composer and musician Herbie Hancock was born in Chicago, Illinois.
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Apr
12
1940
Race, Family, and Real Estate: Beryl Satter's Family Properties
In her new book, Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America, historian Beryl Satter puts a human face on the often told story of racial discrimination in urban housing by following the career of her father, Chicago attorney Mark J. Satter, who was both an
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Movement of Black families into Trumbull Park
Movement of Black families into Trumbull Park housing project in Chicago triggered virtually continuous riot which lasted more than three years and required assignment of more than one thousand policemen to keep order.
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Aug
4
1953
Callioux, Andrew (1820-1863)
Andrew Callioux, Captain of the First Louisiana Native Guards Regiment, Union Army, became a hero while leading his troops at the Battle of Port Hudson in 1863. Callioux was born a free man in New Orleans.  A cigar maker with an elite clientele, Callioux was a Catholic creole of color that had
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Rush, Bobby L. (1946- )
Bobby Lee Rush was born in Albany, Georgia on November 23, 1946. He graduated from Marshall High School in that city at the age of seventeen and soon afterwards enlisted in the United States Army.  Rush served in the Army from 1963 to 1968 when he was honorably
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Nov
23
1946
Jazz Migration
Jazz migration began. Joe Oliver left New Orleans and settled in Chicago and was joined by other stars.
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Dec
11
1917
Death of Ida B.Wells-Barnett
Ida Bell Wells-Barnett
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Jul
16
1862
Cayton, Susie Revels (1870-1943)
Susie Sumner Revels, a daughter of Hiram Revels, the first U.S. Senator of African descent, arrived in Seattle, Washington from Mississippi in 1896. Her reason, she stated, during a 1936 Washington Pioneers Project interview, was the man she was going to marry was here. He was Horace Roscoe
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Jul
12
1896
(1901) Congressman George H. White's Farewell Address To Congress
In January 1901, at the beginning of a new century, George H. White was ending his term as a Congressman from North Carolina’s Second Congressional District. Realizing that he was bringing to a close a thirty two year period when nearly forty Southern African Americans sat in Congress, White used
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Remembering Brown: Silence, Loss, Rage, and Hope
In the following article, James A. Banks, the Kerry and Linda Killinger Professor and Director of the Center for Multicultural Education at the University of Washington, Seattle, describes his Arkansas communitys reaction to the U.S. Supreme Courts Brown v. Board of Education decision when it was
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May
17
1954
Bo Diddley is born.
Bo Diddley was born Ellas Bates on Sunday December 30th 1928 on a small farm near the town of McComb, Mississippi, USA, in rural Pike County, close to the Louisiana border, the only child of Ethel Wilson and Eugene Bates. He had 3 half-brothers and
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Dec
30
1928
Carter G. Woodson
Born: 12/19/1875 New Canton, VirginiaDied: 4/3/1950 Washington, D.C., United StatesKnown as the “Father of Black History,” Carter G. Woodson believed that documenting and sharing African American contributions was essential to cultivating positive self worth among African-Americans as
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